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Comment Re:Spaces are for people who don't understand tabs (Score 1) 391

I don't get it.. serviscope_minor took time out of his/her day to explain this to you not once, but twice already, and still you insist on repeating your obviously erroneous claim.

I threw together a jsfiddle to demonstrate what is meant by "tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment". Please don't judge it to harshly.

https://jsfiddle.net/5ncvn52h/...

The code serves no other purpose than to get the point across, namely that we are all geeks who should be better than to argue from emotion and habit when there is an answer which is objectively better.

Comment Re:ET would disprove God (Score 1) 534

I love that argument. If God did indeed exist and affected our world in any way, we'd likely have observed and measured it by now. After all, we've found the Higgs-boson, detected neutrinos, and "photographed" a single atom. We've measured things so small, so large, so fast, and so far away as to utterly and completely boggle the mind.

The simple fact is: Either God doesn't exist, or he exists but doesn't in any measurable way intervene in our world. Either way, worshiping said deity seems rather pointless.

Also, "God" in this post can be replaced with "Ghosts", "Auras", "Chi/Chakra/Ki/Healing energy", "Allah", or any other mystical or pseudo-mystical mumbo jumbo with much the same result.

Comment Re:Yawn... (Score 1) 534

Well, there is the small issue of Jesus not having an interstellar spaceship. If the only way to Heaven is through Jesus, how many intelligent aliens am I, as an atheist, going to meet the day I die and go to Hell?

Of course, christians have no trouble ignoring the fact that their faith would send millions upon millions straight to the "hotbox" from our planet alone, despite them never even having heard of Christianity (starving children in 3rd world countries), or believing just as strongly in a different set of fairy tales with just as much going for them in the way of evidence and consistency.

Comment Re:Yes, and 16k is enough for anyone too (Score 1) 331

The problem with basing figures for raytracing on current hardware is that none of it is designed for rays. GPUs are designed to be good at rasterization, and ray tracing has different hardware requirements. CPUs aren't particularly good at it either. The 7-hour scene might render many times quicker if it uses hardware designed for the job it is doing, rather than shoehorning it in to an inefficient architecture.
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IBM Launches Parking Meter Analytics System 111

itwbennett writes "It's not just a parking spot, think of it as a 'revenue-producing asset,' says Vinodh Swaminathan, IBM's director of intelligent transportation systems. Working with San Francisco-based startup Streetline, IBM has launched a system designed to help cities ease parking congestion and collect more parking fees. Streetline's remote sensors can determine if a parking space is taken by a car, whether a customer has paid, and how much time is left on the meter. And IBM's business intelligence software parses the data and generates reports and statistics for government managers. Drivers can benefit too: A free mobile phone app can help locate available parking spaces."

Comment Re:Dead on. (Score 1) 470

I see this argument again and again, and quite frankly I have to agree with Zuckerberg. People are dumbasses! Not the people you refer to though, but rather the people constantly making said argument.

How much do you think it costs to host a site like Facebook? Servers, storage, electricity, bandwidth.. Facebook is massive, and the simple fact of the matter is they have to generate income to sustain their existence, regardless of your blind ideologies.

That being said, I'm not a huge fan of ads or information gathering, but I'd rather have a small text-based Google ad informing me about online electronics stores, robotics and other somewhat interesting stuff than the huge Flash obscenities of old!

Comment Re:we need more studies (Score 1) 207

Far more interesting (and relevant) is the effects of hormonal prevention on women's libidos. I don't recall which studies I'm thinking about exactly, but it is a well established fact that women ovulating find high levels of testosterone (e.g. muscles, dominant behavior, general manlyness) attractive while women on the other side of the hormonal scale (pregnant, menstruating, etc.) find typical "female" features more attractive. If a female body is in "get baby!"-mode, she prefers manly men who can protect her offspring as well as contribute good genes. If it's in "has baby!"-mode, she prefers the emotionally available, "soft" man. Hormonal prevention works by tricking the female body into thinking it's pregnant all the time. The result? Tokyo Hotel is hot, burly, hairy men have fallen out of fashion. Seriously.. look at teens these days. The guys generally considered attractive are the semi-anorexic ones with no hair except the neatly styled stuff on their heads. Ask your mother and grandmothers about their taste in men and the answer is likely to be "Butch and if possibly, hairy!". True story!

Comment Re:This is actually pretty cool (Score 1) 231

I would have you check out Sensory Substitution. I feel I'm ranting on about this every time something like this comes up and no one cares. Why is that? The TVSS (Tactile Visual Substitution System by WiCab) provides its users with a 20x20 grayscale image and the Forehead Retina System provides 512 taxel (tactile pixel) vision, all with no surgery. In addition, the BrainPort (also by WiCab) can be hooked up to an accelerometer to provide a sense of balance to people who's inner ears have been damaged. Hell, one can even add new sensory information through some existing channel (f.ex. FeelSpace), and the brain will integrate it thanks to sensomotoric correlations. The blind can already see. We've had the needed technology since Dr. Bach-y-Rita started experimenting with cameras, solenoids and sensory substitution in the 60's.

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